Flight Training Lesson 7

So I was starting to kind of get the hang of it today, so Pete decided to crush me with steep turns. Wow, do I suck. Well, I actually sort of got the hang of them to the right, but for some reason doing them to the left was like trying to solve the Rubik’s cube. One […]

Flight Training Lesson 6

More of the same. Seriously, I am getting better, but apparently we’re going to keep doing slow flight, stalls, ground reference maneuvers, and emergency procedures until I’m within test standards before we move to other topics, and that may take awhile. I can tell I’m getting better, but I’m just not there yet.

Flight Training Lesson 5

I’ve been out of town all week on business, so this was the first time I could get in the air since last weekend. We did 1.2 hours of slow flight and stalls as well as emergency procedures, including one simulated engine out to the runway. I’m getting better, which is good, because the slow […]

Flight Training Lesson 4

Lesson 4, and Pete pulled the first “engine out on take-off” drill. Big laughs had by all. 😉 More slow flight today, along with stalls, both power on and off, as well as clean and dirty. I felt I was doing better today, but I’m still chasing the airplane, at least when I change power […]

Flight Training Lesson 3

Third lesson with Pete tonight, and we started doing ground reference maneuvers (turns about a point, S turns over a road). I still suck, and I totally lost my situational awareness, which I hate, but hey, that’s the way it goes. It’s going to take me awhile to get the hang of the Piper, I’m […]

Flight Training Lesson 2

Flight 2 of my restarted training. I’m still getting used to the Warrior, but I think I’m doing OK. We went out and started by climbing to altitude and trimming the airplane out, then Pete would change the power setting and force me to retrim the airplane. That was all we were planning to do, […]